The Things They Carried took place during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was made up of two sides. One side was the communist ruled Government of North Vietnam, China, Soviet Union, and other communist countries. While the opposing side fighting against them were the United States, South Vietnam, Philippines, and many other anti-communist countries. When the war start it was February 28, 1961 and officially ended on May 7, 1975. The Vietnam War was the first televised war. The war was broadcasted back home all the time. This brought the civilians see what happened during war. This brought backlash to the Government. During the mid 60’s the United States citizens started to protest against the war. This was also the first time in United States
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was opposed of the war asking for peace. A quote from history.com states,”King proposed that the United States stop all bombing of North and South Vietnam; declare a unilateral truce in the hope that it would lead to peace talks; set a date for withdrawal of all troops from Vietnam; and give the National Liberation Front a role in negotiations.” There was way too much controversy during the 60’s on U.S. soil. The U.S. Government were busy in the 60’s with problems like African-American rights movement, Gay rights movement, assassination of both Kennedy and MLK, and Peace Movements. The war was just another problem for the U.S. Government to solve. The U.S. had way many more problems on our own soil than the war itself. In Tim O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried; the way O’Brien reacted to death when he first became a soldier was way different to the way he reacted to a comrade 's death later in the war. In this book O’Brien tells the reader about …show more content…
There is no date to be found on the piece. This piece contains three male soldiers and one or two wounded soldiers on the ground, while there is two men in the chopper. The scene is taken place outdoors in the jungle but there is enough open land to land a chopper for EVAC, for the wounded soldiers to be taken to the hospital. Since it is in the jungle the artist piece is densely populated with thick brush: trees, bushes, plants, etc. The piece shows a daytime setting about mid-day. The one soldier is running towards the down-coming chopper in a hurry with a sense of urgency and the one man coming out of the chopper door looks to be coming out with urgency and concern trying to load the wounded as fast as possible to save their lives. On the other hand the other soldier looks to be tending a wounded soldier with concern. While the last soldier is on one knee, “watching the men’s six.” Madden illustrates the men’s emotions by their body language. The focal point to the piece of art is the soldier running to the helicopter. The artist brings me to see this because it is right in the middle of the drawing, both the soldier and helicopter. The lighting shows that the brighter part is in the open land, while the darkness is in the jungle where it is dense with the canopy covering the jungle floor. The colors representing the piece are a light gray, dark gray, black. The emotions I felt looking at the piece is
was opposed of the war asking for peace. A quote from history.com states,”King proposed that the United States stop all bombing of North and South Vietnam; declare a unilateral truce in the hope that it would lead to peace talks; set a date for withdrawal of all troops from Vietnam; and give the National Liberation Front a role in negotiations.” There was way too much controversy during the 60’s on U.S. soil. The U.S. Government were busy in the 60’s with problems like African-American rights movement, Gay rights movement, assassination of both Kennedy and MLK, and Peace Movements. The war was just another problem for the U.S. Government to solve. The U.S. had way many more problems on our own soil than the war itself. In Tim O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried; the way O’Brien reacted to death when he first became a soldier was way different to the way he reacted to a comrade 's death later in the war. In this book O’Brien tells the reader about …show more content…
There is no date to be found on the piece. This piece contains three male soldiers and one or two wounded soldiers on the ground, while there is two men in the chopper. The scene is taken place outdoors in the jungle but there is enough open land to land a chopper for EVAC, for the wounded soldiers to be taken to the hospital. Since it is in the jungle the artist piece is densely populated with thick brush: trees, bushes, plants, etc. The piece shows a daytime setting about mid-day. The one soldier is running towards the down-coming chopper in a hurry with a sense of urgency and the one man coming out of the chopper door looks to be coming out with urgency and concern trying to load the wounded as fast as possible to save their lives. On the other hand the other soldier looks to be tending a wounded soldier with concern. While the last soldier is on one knee, “watching the men’s six.” Madden illustrates the men’s emotions by their body language. The focal point to the piece of art is the soldier running to the helicopter. The artist brings me to see this because it is right in the middle of the drawing, both the soldier and helicopter. The lighting shows that the brighter part is in the open land, while the darkness is in the jungle where it is dense with the canopy covering the jungle floor. The colors representing the piece are a light gray, dark gray, black. The emotions I felt looking at the piece is